People
Places
Events
Amendments
Miscellaneous
100

President of the Union during the Civil War, led government to end slavery

Abraham Lincoln

100

City where protesters dumped tea into the harbor to protest British taxes

Boston

100

Separation of people by race in public places

Segregation

100

Amendment protecting the freedoms of speech, religion, the press & assembly

1st

100

Animal sacred to Native Americans, almost hunted to extinction by Americans

Buffalo

200

Former slave, speech giver, and abolitionist who led anti-slavery movement & was ambassador to Haiti

Frederick Douglass

200

Series of safehouses helping slaves escape from the South to the North

Underground Railroad

200

First battle of the American Revolution against the British

Battles of Lexington & Concord

200

Amendment that protects the right to bear/own firearms

2nd

200

Which immigrant group was banned entirely from the United States in 1882?

Chinese

300

Businessman who made money through steel, donated his fortune before his death

Andrew Carnegie

300

Sections of land where Native Americans were forced to live & farm individually

Reservations

300

Forced removal of Native Americans from their homes to the West

Trail of Tears

300

Amendment banning slavery in the United States, except as a punishment to a crime

13th

300

Indigenous people of Puerto Rico

TaĆ­no

400

Scottish-American inventor who created the first telephone

Alexander Graham-Bell

400

Canal built to make travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean easier

Panama Canal

400

Sherman's military campaign in which he burned down a majority of Georgia

March to the Sea
400

Amendment that makes everyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen

14th

400

One company or individual owning an entire resource or industry

Monopoly

500

Nurse who created the American Red Cross and improved cleanliness in surgery

Clara Barton

500

Part of the world invaded by America during the Banana Wars

Latin America/Caribbean

500

Whose assassination started World War One?

Franz Ferdinand

500

Amendment banning unreasonable search & seizure, searches require warrant

4th Amendment

500

Belief that poor people are poor because they didn't work hard enough

Social Darwinism